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So only one perspective is allowed?? Why can’t their be multiple views?
A prominent Israeli legal organization alleges the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is promoting a politically one-sided narrative.
So we should consider adding Nakba exhibits to Holocaust museums to avoid a one-sided narrative?
For more perspective, throw in the Turkish genocide of the Armenians (where a British journalist first used the word "holocaust" in its modern sense-- the journalist was Winston Churchill) and the Holodomor. And to diversify more, there's Pol Pot's auto-genocide in Cambodia and the Rwanda bloodbath. Maybe also a sideshow on the Serbian aggression against everyone nearby who isn't a Serb.
No, silly, you have to show the side where the Jews made the Nazis feel bad for gassing them /s
We'll have to add a bunch of literal Nazi propaganda. And not as examples of vile hatred, but presented seriously as an argument to "both sides" the Holocaust.
This is like one day a British lobbyist group wake up and starting to sue their ex-colonies for misrepresentation. The amount of delulu one must have to do this deserve to be studied.
a politically one-sided narrative.
Easy to fix, add a single sign 'nothing bad happened'. Big chance you can re-use the next time Israel is featured in an exhibition in your human rights museum.
Ah yes the other side.
Fueled by imperialist fervor, and backed by western military power, the settlers marched under a perceived promise from the God of the universe as recorded in a book written by men thousands of years ago that they would be the sole inhabitants of a specific piece of dirt that already had other people living in it. Under this banner of heaven the settlers felt justified in the violences documented in this exhibit because they wanted the land that other people had been living on for generations. The animosity toward their fellow man from settlers of the Israeli state continues to this day in much the same fashion: seizing land, beating inhabitants, turning a blind eye to rape and murder, enforcement of an apparteid status, and unceasing propaganda including the delegitimizing of the term "antisemite."
I personally don't understand why sharing that viewpoint would matter, but I guess, go ham.
Also
delegitimizing Jewish self-determination
No it doesn't. Jewish self-determination doesn't grant the right to murder, rape, and steal from people, and documenting the abuses of the settlers does not delegitimizing Jewish self-determination. This is true of all acts of self-determination, and to believe different because it's "Jewish" would be holding Jewish people to a double standard which, I'm sure you all know, the ADL considers antisemitic.
...how is The Onion still in business again?
I dunno, but if anyone comes across the embroidered Ass and Face towels they used to sell in the back of the print version, let me know
Israel is literally going out of their way to make pograms look justified and Hitler not look crazy.
Netanyahu and his ilk will be the reason a second holocaust happens.
Not quite, but they'll probably be a factor (obligatory here's hoping we're wrong on both counts). Israel's conduct in general (this is in no way restricted to a particular faction or part of the Israeli political spectrum) is making antisemitism more mainstream, but the West is due for a fascist takeover and it's not like fascists need much reason to go after Jews.
The one-sided narrative is what we were all fed for three quarters of a century. Now they're just furious that the other side of the story is becoming more widely known. If Israel hadn't so obviously decided on a policy of genocide towards Palestinians, it might have stood a better chance of continuing to control the narrative. But we've seen Israel committing the most appalling torture and mass slaughter every day for years and celebrating it, despite it also killing as many journalists as it can to prevent the truth being told. Our understanding of the story is rebalancing, and Israel's propagandists hate that.
The term antisemitic is really losing all meaning at this point. Which is fucked up.
The irony is, Palestinians are semite.
There are no Semitic people only Semitic languages. Saying that Arabs are Semitic is a category error.
True, but nobody is then. Arabic is a Semitic language.
Two things are true at once:
- no people is Semitic (because the word applies to languages not to peoples)
- antisemitism is the hostility towards Jews as Jews (because words have meaning beyond their etymology, just like homophobia does not imply being scared of homosexuals)
Otherwise, what, antisemism is the hostility towards speakers of Semitic languages? That's just silly.
Otherwise, what, antisemism is the hostility towards speakers of Semitic languages? That's just silly.
That's the origin. It is silly, I agree.
I'm not arguing that it doesn't mean Jews now. I'm just saying it's stupid.
"Um achtchually" incoming.
The origin of the word "antisemitism" is not about languages. It is about race. It is based on 1770s Biblical racial terminology that broke up all humanity according to the three sons of Noah: Shem (-ites: Jews, Arabs, etc) , Ham (-ites: Africans), Japheth (-ites: Europeans, Persians).
A few decades later, a French fuckface called Ernest Renan creates a whole story about how Semites are inferior to Aryans/Japhthites and even writes a very influential book about how Jesus was born a Semite Jew but perfected himself to become an Aryan Christian.
So at this point, the term "semites" has a very clear racist sense to it. And in response to that Moritz Steinschneider, an Austrian Jew invents the word "antisemitism" in
the phrase "antisemitische Vorurteile" (antisemitic prejudices). Steinschneider used this phrase to characterise the French philosopher Ernest Renan's false ideas about how 'Semitic races' were inferior to 'Aryan races'". (src)
Then (with various intermediates) comes a German fuckface, Wilhelm Marr, who not only popularises the conflation of Semites with Jews but also proudly declares Antisemitism as an moral impertative to save Germany from the Jews and
in 1879 founded the League of Antisemites (Antisemiten-Liga), the first German organization committed specifically to combating the alleged threat to Germany posed by the Jews and advocating their forced removal from the country.
That's the story. The term originally was a bullshit racial category that happened to have some linguistic usefulness that we still retain.
Antisemitic used to mean people who didn't like jews. Now it means people the jews don't like.
People the Zionists* don't like. Plenty of Christian Evangelicals also using it because they want the end of times to come about.
Netanyahu is antisemitic. You know, for getting 80% of the world to hate Israel.
Cancer is suing the chemotherapy museum, who would have thought.
So to be clear, this is an Israeli legal group, not a Canadian Jewish legal group. In fact it is a group that has well known ties to the Israeli government and Israeli intelligence, and whose founder has bragged that they can do what the government cannot do because of political restraints and international treaties.
This isn't about members of the public having any kind of legitimate grievance, this is about lawfare.
... is promoting a politically one-sided narrative
Oh really now? Are they really?
Israel has a perverse incentive to not strongly resist antisemitism. Part of its national sales pitch is that it's the only safe place for Jews. The existence of Jewish communities outside of Israel that are frankly much safer than that being led by the sorts of people leading Israel flies in the face of the pitch. Rising antisemitism in our own countries rebalances the risk in that equation more towards Israel's favour.
They're counting on it to drive more Jews to move to the "safety" of Israel.
They were granted a get out of jail free card, for a long time.
I made a comment on a German forum about how horrible Israel has been and it got taken down per German anti-antisemitic laws.
The exhibit focuses on Palestinian accounts of the Nakba — Arabic for “catastrophe” — referring to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war surrounding the creation of the State of Israel.
“The creation of the State of Israel pursuant to international legal and diplomatic processes is not, in itself, a human rights violation,” the letter states.
Make it make sense, Israel shouldn't exist for the exact reason.
Hopes this goes to court and that there's a fruitful discovery phase, with relevant documents held by parties being potentially put into the public record. Ideally with governments being dragged into this, so that it extends to gov records.
I think it's more about draining the resources of a museum with costly litigation, which is the typical MO.
One of the most prominent witnesses in the ICC Genocide case against Israel is a British Palestinian doctor who only recently won a 2 year long litigation battle against "UK lawyers for Israel" in January, which UKLFI is trying to reopen again this past March - each legal battle costs him about £150,000, not to mention time and money from his actual job of being a doctor.
It does look like a SLAPP suit.
If it doesn't get rejected outright, might as well make it painful for the plaintif. The plaintif may not fear an expensive court case, but they may fear dirt being dug up and exposed publicly.
Until they stop "genociding" they should keep their hypocritical mouths closed. Human rights indeed.
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